HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 368        FILED ON: 1/12/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 356

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to dismissal of teachers..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 42 of chapter 71 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

A principal or superintendent may upon inquiry from a school district state the reasons that a teacher was dismissed.  A principal shall inquire about the status and service of any applicant for a teaching position from any school district that previously employed such applicant.